Whip-socket.



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(Application filed Mar. 8, 1899.,

(No Model.)

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UNlTE STATES OSCAR CARTER, OF BUENA VISTA, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO GEORGE W. CATHOART, OF MYRTLE, MISSISSIPPI.

WHIP-SOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,219, dated November 20, 1906.

Application filed March 8, 1899. Serial No. 708,200. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: The socket proper is indicated by the nu- Be it known that I, OSCAR CARTER, a citimeral 20 and preferably has a flared upper zen of the United States, and a resident of end 21 and a spring 22 attached to one side, Buena Vista,Monroe county,State of Indiana, with its free end 23 pressing inwardly against 55 have invented certain new and useful'Imthe butt of the whip when in position. The

provements in Whip-Sockets; and my prelower extremity of this socket stands norferred manner of carrying out the invention mally between the tubular portion 13 and the is set forth in the following full, clear, and surrounding collar 14. Within the socket 2O exact description, terminating with claims is a fixed plate 25, from which depends an 60 particularly specifying the novelty. eye 26, and from the latter leads a chain or This invention relates to harness attachlink 27 downward and connects, as by a ments, and more especially to that class therescrew and bolt 28, with the lower end of a of known as whip-sockets, and the object bowed spring 29, whose body curves,as shown, of the same is to produce certain improveand whose upper end stands within the slot 63 ments in devices of this character. 15, where it preferably has an eye 16, as shown To this end the invention consists ina supin Fig. 3, through which the link or connecport attached to a vehicle-body, abody swivtion passes. elly attached to the support, a socket flexibly In operation the su pport is suitably secured attached to the body, and the specific details in position, the body attached thereto and 70 of all these parts which carry out the end in set at the desired angle by means of the thumbview, all as more fully hereinafter described screw, and the socket mounted on the body and claimed and as illustrated in the drawand held normally in upright position by ings, whereinmeans of the spring. It will be obvious that Figurelis a section throughabuggy,showif a whip supported in said socket should 75 ing this improved whip-socket in place. Fig. be passed beneath an obstruction and in- 2 is a front elevation of the socket, partly in clined thereby to the rear the entire socket section. Fig. 3 is an enlarged perspective would yield or bend at an angle to the body detail of the spring connections illustrating before the whip would be broken. Furtherthe bow-spring, and Fig. 4 is a similar detail more, if the driver should attempt to insert 80 showing the use of a spiral spring. the whip into the socket without having it Referring to the said drawings, the nuin true alinement therewith the socket would meral 1 designates a plate attached either to yield under the influence of the spring, so as the bottom or the dashboard of a buggy, to aline with the whip and permit the inserwagon, or the like by means of ordinary tion thereof. WVhen in place, the butt of the 85 thumb-screws or bolts 2, and from the center whip rests on the'fixed plate within the socket, of this plate rises an integral disk 3, cupand the spring 22 holds it therein. In case shaped on one face and preferably provided the whip should fit very closely within the therein with radial grooves, as indicated in socket I provide the body of the latter with dotted lines in Fig. 2. a hole above the partition therein to pre- 4o 10 designates the body above referred to vent an air-cushion. and at whose lower end is a convex disk 11 of All parts are of the desired sizes, shapes, a size and shape to fit the cup-shaped face of proportions, and materials consistent with the disk, and 12 is a set-screw passing through the above specific details,and various changes alined holes in the centers of both disks, by in the latter may be made without departin 5 4.5 means of which they can be locked together from the essential principles of my invenin any desired radial position after proper tion; but one of these changes I have conadjustment. At the upper end of this body sidered it necessary to illustrate herein, and it is formed tubular, as shown at 13, surthat consists in substituting for the bowrounded by a collar 14, and below the latter spring 29 a spiral spring 290, as best seen in 50 it is longitudinally slotted, as seen at 15, all Fig. 4: of the drawings. Obviously the uses for a purpose to appear below. thereof will be substantially the same, and

other parts need not be altered save possibly by the insertion of a washer above the nut 28, as shown in that view.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-- 1. In a whip-socket, the combination with the base attached to a suitable support and having a cup-shaped disk with radial grooves therein; of a body having a disk with a convex face fitting said other disk, a thumbscrew through the centers of both disks, a socket proper supported by the body, and means for retaining in place and permitting the yielding of the socket in all directions out of longitudinal alinement wit-h the body, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a whip-socket, the combination with a support and a body adjustably mounted thereon and having its upper end tubularand surrounded by a collar; of the tubular socket proper whose lower end rests between the tubular portion of the body and said collar, a fixed plate within the socket, an eye projecting downward from the plate through the body, and a spring connected with said eye for holding the socket normally in alinement with the body, as and for the purpose set forth.

3. In a whip-socket, the combination with the body, having an annular ring at its upper end; of the socket proper whose lower end fits within said ring, a rigid plate within the socket, an eye depending therefrom through the ring, a link connected with the eye, and a spring one arm of which is adjustably connected with the lower end of the link, and the other arm of which is held by the body, as and for the purpose set forth.

4. In a whip-socket, the combination with a base attached to a suitable support and having a disk with grooves therein; of a body having a disk with a face fitting said other disk, a thumb-screw through the centers of both disks, a socket proper supported by the body, a spring attached to said socket and having its free end pressing normally inward through the same to hold the whip therein, and means for retaining in place and permitting the yielding of the socket in all directions out of longitudinal alinement with the body, as and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a whip-socket, the combination with a support, and a body adj ustably mounted thereon and havingits upper end tubular and surrounded by a collar; of the tubular socket proper whose lower end rests between the body and collar, a plate within the socket, an eye projecting downward from the plate through the body, alink connected with the eye, a nut on the link, a washer above it, and a spiral spring having one end pressing upward against the body and the other end downward against the washer, such spring surrounding said link and eye for holding the socket normally in alinement with the body, as and for the purpose set forth.

6. In a whip-socket, the combination with the body having a ring at its upper end; of

the socket proper whose lower end fits within said ring, a rigid plate within the socket, an eye depending therefrom through the ring, a link connected with the eye, and a bowspring one arm of which is adjustably connected with the lower end of the link, and the other arm of which rests beneath the body, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my signature this the tth day of March, A. D. 1899.

OSCAR CARTER. Witnesses:

(J. P. GATTY, JOSEPH F. BURCH. 

